Device for supporting watch-chains on belts.



LE ROY HEFLIN.

DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING WATCH CHAINS ON BELTS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10, 1912.

1,090,054, Patented Mar. 10, 1914.

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UNITE LE ROY HEFLIN, 0F FAIRFAX, OKLAHOMA.

DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING WATCH-CHAINS ON BELTS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, LE Roy HEFLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fairfax, in the county of Osage and State of Oklahoma, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Supporting \Vatch'Chains on Belts, of which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a device for supporting watch chains and watches connected thereto, on belts.

The invention embodies, among other features, a supporting member slidable on the belt and adapted to have one end of a watch chain connected thereto, the device being conveniently employed when the watch is placed in the small watch pocket of the trousers and it is desired to connect the chain of the watch to a portion of the ap parel of the wearer in close proximity to the watch.

The invention further embodies a device that is preferably used in connection with the watch chain buttons now generally used 011 watch chains and which are passed through the button-hole in the lapel of a coat when the watch is placed in one of the side pockets of the coat, adjacent the lapel, the button of the watch chain in this instance and when the watch is placed in the watch pocket of the trousers, being arranged between my device and the belt of the wearer, the device being slidable on the belt and provided with a slot through which the watch chain is passed to connect with the watch in the watch pocket of the trousers.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a belt showing my device applied thereto and having a watch chain supported there by; Fig. 2 is a. vertical transverse sectional View taken on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1; and

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 10, 1912.

Patented Mar. 10, 1914.

Serial No. 719,680.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device, showing the same removed from the belt.

Referring more particularly to the views, use is made of a body 10 consisting of a single piece of material 10" looped as shown in Fig. 3, with the ends 11 of the body secured together in any convenient manner, so that the body 10 can be mounted to slide on a belt 12, as shown, a slot 13 being formed in the bodv 10 and adapted to receive therethrough a watch chain 14-, with a button 15 at one end of the watch chain arranged between the body 10 and the belt 12, thus supporting the watch chain on the belt. By referring to the views. it will be seen that the button 15 is of greater diameter than the width of the slot 13, thus preventing the accidental disengagement of the button 15 and chain 1 .1: with the body 10, it being readily seen that by simply removing the body 10 from the belt 12, the chain 1-1t and button 15 can be readily witlnlrawn from the body 10 by pulling the chain 14: through the slot 13, the slot being sulliciently large to permit of the usual swivel on the chain and which con nects a watch to the chain to pass through the slot when the chain is disengaged from the body 10.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a device for supporting watch securing members on belts, comprising a single piece of elongated flexible material bent to provide a front face having a closed vertical slot, with the ends of the piece of material rclativeh abutting in the rear of the front face and connected so that the said piece of material can be slidingly supported on the belt and encircle the same and carry an end of the said watcl; seciu'ing member, interposed between the. said front face and the belt, with a portion of the securing member passing transversely through the said slot.

2. In a device for supporting securing members on belts, a loop slidingly supported on the belt and encircling the same and provided With an elongated slot through Which the said securing member passes, the inner end of the securing member being interposed between a face of the said loop and 5 the said belt and supported thereby.

3. Means for attaching a Watch chain or like part to a belt, the same consisting of a closed loop adapted to encircle the belt and freely slidable thereon and having an open- 10 ing for the passage of the Watch chain or like part to admit of the bar or corresponding part lying between the belt and the inner Wall of the part of the loop having the opening formed therein.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 15 in presence of tWo Witnesses.

LE ROY HEFLIN.

Vitnesses: t

G. I. HUFFAKER, J. H. WARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Iatents Washington, D. C." 

